What video card should buy?

[radiance]

as i already explained in another thread,
these new fermi chips have a large cache which should give a major speed up for our engine.
much more than just the higher amount of cores.

i'm betting it will be at least 3x as fast to 4x as fast comparing say a gtx480 to a gtx280

Radiance

[n1k]

Nvidia also said that fermi is around 3 times faster in GPGPU tasks than gtx285.

[ROUBAL]

I hope that the power comsumption and the price will not be too heavy...

[Kevin Sanderson]

A post here at the following link says the GTX 470 and GTX 480 are being released March 26.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7426

An earlier post says the pre-order price on one site that was taken down had the PNY GTX 470 with 1GB of DDR5 memory going for $499 and the XFX GTX 480 with 2GB of DDR5 memory going for $679 (marked down from $699).

[radiance]

A post here at the following link says the GTX 470 and GTX 480 are being released March 26.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7426

An earlier post says the pre-order price on one site that was taken down had the PNY GTX 470 with 1GB of DDR5 memory going for $499 and the XFX GTX 480 with 2GB of DDR5 memory going for $679 (marked down from $699).

Thanks for the link Kevin,
that's very good news, finally a release date,
it's what everyone was waiting for

Radiance

[ROUBAL]

The release date is confirmed, but the pre-order price was an hoax !

The information doesn't come from Nvidia : It has been launched by a on line store, and no real information about the card are available.

[havensole]

I saw the same links a day or so ago. Just kinda sucks that we wont really see a decent stock until April. I was just about to throw the money down for a gtx295, but it seems everyone, that isn't charging ridiculous prices, is sold out, and doubt we'll be seeing any more until about the time the gtx470/480 are released. So I guess I get to wait another month+ to upgrade my system. The price on the "pre-order" I doubt is wrong, or at least not too far off from what they will go for, for the 480's, at first. This way companies can still make a decent profit off of their existing gtx/gts200 stocks while they have them. I dont expect their prices to go down too much as a 9800gtx is still around $100US and a gts250 is just a little more. I can see the 480 going for $650+ as the ATI competition is about that as well, and $500 for the 470 isn't too bad either considering what one is getting for it. I am just curious about whether the talk about the limited cores is true (448 vs. 512) as well as all the other issues they've been having getting these things to market, and what kind of reliability we will see out of them. Of course I will still throw down my money for the 470, as the 480 is just too far out of my range unless the specs are that far apart from the 470. I am eager to get this all going with Octane and some animation files. After watching the FF7: Advent Children on blu-ray the other day I have been working like mad on my files. If the fermi can produce the speedups you are hoping for, then I will most likely be getting far faster, and much better quality, renders then I had been planning on just using Blender's render engine. Right now I am getting roughly a frame every 5-10 min. in Blender and 15-25 min. in Octane, with a 8800GT 512 card.